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Literal enshittification!
While also raising their rates, of course.
Hey, that sludge pipe wasn't cheap!
I saved up a bunch of shows and waited all year to binge in one month over the summer and cancel.
may I recommend…
✨piracy✨?
I love your recommendation. Unfortunately I am very out of the loop with that sort of thing these days. And I’m without resources if I accidentally break something. I need my desktop for work as well. I’d be happy to read up on the topic if you could suggest some reputable sources that someone without a tech background could break down. It’s why I save it all up until summer. So I pay them as little as possible.
I beleive this is where dbzer0 would come in... So basically, you are going to want a VPN first, which they are pretty easy to get and use and there are plenty of resources online, I would suggest going for a trusted one such as Proton VPN or Nord VPN. Then as for how to actually get movies/shows, you are going to want to install firefox (if you don't have it) and then add the 'ublock' extention to block popups and other nasty things. Then once you have that, you can check out the sites in our megathread, they are safe and trusted: https://rentry.co/megathread-movies-and-tv . Let me know if you need more help. :)
Edit:
firfox - https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
Ublock - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/
I too am out of the loop but why not use tor? The VPN companies can still trace it back to you if what you did turned out to be illegal.
Because streaming over tor is 1) painfully slow and 2) a dick move for the whole network that is very important to others.
VPN don't give a crap about people pirating, and governments probably don't as much as people think (I guess that depends heavily on your country), but if you really want to be safe, go for one of the logless vpn, like mullvad or ivpn.
That's fair piracy probably is safer than most people have you believe.
I still wouldn't go for any VPN that clearly logs stuff that can be traced back to me, that would defeat most of the purpose (unless it's one for accessing machines in my home network).
Also if you're downloading it first I don't really see the relevance of speed, just do it the day before.
Technically a vpn is a private company while ISPs I guess have less freedom over government request compliance. So a vpn would be slightly better but yes, very little added value if it's one of the mainstream ones like nord or tunnelbear
That's why I suggested trusted vpn companies. Proton keeps no logs, so they couldn't hand it over if even they wanted to. I also suggested VPN as opposed to TOR because TOR can be fiddly*, and complicated because of that to a non-techy person (which is what this person had said they were). The speeds of TOR are also not good for streaming.
fidely
I don’t want to be that guy but I suspect you mean “fiddly,” whose spelling derives from “fiddle.”
I only mention it because it took me a bit to figure out what you were saying.
I'm not an expert by any means here, but my impression is that it at some point comes down to a tradeoff between security/anonymity and having a fast enough connection. TOR slows you down much more than an ordinary VPN is what I've heard.
I have all the skill and info needed to pirate anything I want safely and easily. I still use your method.
#1 stats are recorded and they can see what those of us who only buy one month a year watch. #2 it's easy and $18 a year isn't a bad price for the shows and movies I am interesting IMO. #3 there is a certain joy in binging and cancelling after one month that pirating cannot provide.
PS: I kinda like checking in on the Netflix interface once a year just to see what people are dealing with.
Netflix subscribers: "I just like to watch shows."
Gosh, if only there were another service, or another way to do that. Shucks.
Doesn't your library let you borrow DVDs? Seems outdated but I very recently binged three seasons of Succession thanks to my local library!
In my country the library barely exists lmao… sad life.
I hate these subscriptions everybody and their mom has, but it's insanely expensive to buy blueray discs these days, it's easily 30-40 euro per movie f.e.
I mean, you can just buy dvds. They are cheap af. If you know where to look you can also find bluray discs for cheap. My boyfriend and I sometimes go to websites for used dvds and blurays and they don't cost 30 to 40 euros there.
You can also go to the library and borrow dvd and bluray movies. It's free and you can discover some films you would have otherwise never seen. I do that a lot and my boyfriend and I enjoy this setup. It is a lot cheaper and nicer than having subscriptions to two or three shitty streaming services that are filled with trash and none of them have the movies we want to watch. Fuck that shit. Physical media all the way. It is so easy and cheap to go back to physical if you really want it. It is probably cheaper than subscribing to services where you basically pay for air and own nothing.
Well DVD's are yes, but Blu-rays are rare second hand. Heck, they are rare online and in stores, at least in NL and the parts of Europe I can order from.
As far as I know, the libraries here don't really store a lot of movies and games any more.
These days I just use the arr stack .... Doesn't work for most of my music though.
I hate subscriptions with a passion and only pay for a couple that are needed (domain, website, bitwarden, Proton, etc), but for things like music, physical is way more expensive than Spotify (especially now with the family discount and I get it for free), buying the album of every band I listen to at least one song of. Finding a Green Day CD for a couple euro is possible, but even for things like Kensington it is already quickly 10 euro per album. Heck Discogs even has issues realising that Europe is not a country ...
...what? Have you heard of Goodwill or Value Village?
Considering I work in the accountancy, yes, I have heard of Goodwill /s.
Considering the closest Goodwill or Value Village is like a 9 hour flight away it doesn't do me any good.
Streaming services are crap. For new years I wanted to give myself streaming for a month and nothing looked good. I didn’t get anything.
That fucking alphabet grid where you try to type search terms with the four arrow keys is what always sends me back to reading books. Like, just doing that with a keyboard-type layout would be way better or even T9 - or maybe they could recycle old used Blackberrys for the purpose.
I can't remember if it was The Goodies or Monty Python that did this exact skit in the 1970s. :)
I don't know the Goodies or Python one, but Stewart Lee did it in Comedy Vehicle as well, I think in Series 1?
Maybe that was the one I was thinking of.
Man, that's one of the best series ever. The 'audiences like you killed Robin Williams' bit, I think in series 4, is one of the most amazing 30 minutes of standup ever.
Oh shit! I don't think I ever watched series 4! Off to rectify that!
Finally!
The stuff Netflix puts out, particularly the documentaries are far better quality than just about anything I’ve seen on cable or tv. I know people like to shit on Netflix but they have better content than most
They put out a lot of uninspired trash and axe the good shows early, but they do have a couple of truly great shows.
For quality originals though, Apple TV+. Highest ratio of good to bad content I've seen. Much smaller volume though.
So what you're saying is, Happy Gilmore 2 will not save streaming?
🛥 see you on the high seas
I seem to be in a minority in thinking I get good value for money from Netflix.
I cancelled after I realized I watched 2, maybe 3 shows a year on it. Had it since the pre-streaming days.
Not sure I’d call Suits or The Hitlist “septic waste”, but you do you!
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